Synonym: apogee, climax, closing, completion, mop up, windup. Similar words: nomination, rumination, examination, recrimination, discrimination, inclination, combination, nation. Meaning: [‚kʌlmɪ'neɪʃn] 
n. 1. a final climactic stage 2. (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon 3. the decisive moment in a novel or play 4. a concluding action.
n. 1. a final climactic stage 2. (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon 3. the decisive moment in a novel or play 4. a concluding action. 
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1. The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
2. This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
3. 2001 saw the culmination of the project.
4. The show marked the culmination of months of hard work.
5. This little book represented the culmination of 15 years' work.
6. Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
7. Winning first prize was the culmination of years of practice and hard work.
8. The reforms marked the successful culmination of a long campaign.
9. A decision will be taken at the culmination of the initial research.
10. This was the culmination of an atomic programme that the Fourth Republic had begun and which de Gaulle had accelerated.
11. If it was on purpose, the culmination of some evil conspiracy, well of course it will happen again.
12. Yet this final dissolution was the culmination of a long decline.
13. The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford.
14. The culmination of years of selective breeding - Richard Tisbury releases a Sanke.
15. The Public Order Act represented the culmination of a long debate within the government about how increased civil disorder should be controlled.
16. The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years.
17. This incident was the culmination of increasing hostility among black and white students at Olivet.
18. The presentations marked the culmination of nine hour sessions between factory and school on three work related themes.
19. The deal marked the culmination of years of negotiation with the city authorities.
20. Carnival time in Rio is the culmination of months of preparation.
21. Culmination, the longed-for moment when a wild bird would cat from his hand or perch on his shoulder, never occurred.
22. The human appears as the culmination and highest point of this process on earth.
23. This marked the culmination of a pro-democracy campaign launched by opposition groups in February 1990.
24. He was howled down by some of the 2,000 people gathered to hear the culmination of the 10-year process for reconciliation.
25. The same approach is applied to the whole body of a three-quarter length figure, which is the culmination of the series.
26. The general's resignation, if it does happen, will be the culmination of months of political manoeuvring.
27. To him an important embassy was a perquisite of birth rather than the culmination of years of painstaking effort.
28. The sampling at the station was performed approximately 2 weeks before the culmination of the spring bloom.
29. The creation of devices capable of producing resonance was the culmination of a long and patient exploration of sounds.
30. The blue I used to make, she thought to herself(http://sentencedict.com), was the culmination of a sequence.
More similar words: nomination, rumination, examination, recrimination, discrimination, inclination, combination, nation, national, donation, zonation, speculation, calculation, damnation, incarnation, nationwide, acculturation, designation, explanation, nationalism, nation-state, international, administration, dominate, laminated, eliminate, contaminate, fascinating, ratification, gratification.